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Frontiers | Diversity and composition of soil bacteria between

Background and aimsLand abandonment and selective farming are two common management methods to restore the soil conditions of low-pollution farmland in mining areas. The soil bacterial community plays an important role in farmland soil restoration; however, few studies have compared the composition and diversity of soil …

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Antimony toxicity in soils and plants, and mechanisms of its

18 rowsAntimony (Sb) is a non-essential element for plants, animals, and humans. With increased ...

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Rhizosphere Microbial Communities and Geochemical …

Antimony (Sb) and arsenic (As) are two hazardous metalloid elements, and the biogeochemical cycle of Sb and As can be better understood by studying plant rhizosphere microorganisms associated with Sb mine waste. In the current study, samples of three types of mine waste-Sb mine tailing, waste rocks, …

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Speciation and location of arsenic and antimony in rice samples …

Arsenic (As) and antimony (Sb) are considered as priority environmental pollutants and their accumulation in crop plants particularly in rice has posed a great health risk. This study endeavored to investigate As and Sb contents in paired soil-rice samples obtained from Xikuangshan, the world largest active Sb mining region, situated in China ...

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Changes in diversity and composition of rhizosphere bacterial community

Open pit antimony (Sb) mining causes serious soil pollution, and phytoremediation is a low-cost approach to remediate heavy metal contaminated soil. ... Based on this, we speculate that Rhizobium genus has high application value in plant recovery in Sb mining for it not only can resist the high concentration of heavy metal, but …

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Antimony toxicity in soils and plants, and mechanisms of its

Plant-to-plant differences in Sb absorption. Antimony uptake varies widely among plant species, growing sites, and underlying substrate conditions (Table 1). Most commonly, the highest plant Sb concentrations occur in mining areas where the concentration of Sb in the soil is appreciably high (sometimes more than 1000 mg Sb kg …

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Phytoremediation and the Electrokinetic Process: Potential

2.2 Phytoremediation of Arsenic and Antimony in Mining Areas/Soil. Mining areas can be rehabilitated by plants with potential to accumulate metals and/or metalloids. Plant species spontaneously growing in mining areas contaminated with Sb and As naturally accumulate these metalloids, mainly when in an available form (Levresse et al. …

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Mandalay Resources Corporation | Costerfield Mine

150,000 tonnes per annum. The Costerfield operation is located in Victoria, Australia, within the Costerfield mining district, approximately 10 km northeast of the town of Heathcote, Victoria. Purchased in 2009, Mandalay Resources immediately restarted capital development and mining. By 2013, through extensive improvements and investments in ...

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Evaluating the role of rhizosphere microbial home-field advantage …

B. luminifera in the mining area exhibited excellent traits related to Sb tolerance.. The home-field advantage of plant-rhizosphere microbiome can be inherited across generations. • Bacteria, rather than fungi, played a key role in promoting the initial growth of B. luminifera.. The 13 functional strains with potential for promoting growth …

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CSIRO PUBLISHING | Environmental Chemistry

Environmental context. Soil contamination by antimony (Sb) has become an environmental problem of much concern in recent years, because increasing mining and industrial use has led to widespread soil contamination by this biologically unessential, but potentially carcinogenic element. We reviewed the available literature and found that Sb …

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Australia Snapshot: Eight companies to watch

In Sweden, Björkdal is an underground mine with longhole stoping and a mineral processing plant that includes gravity and flotation circuits. In 2020 it produced 45,296 oz. of gold.

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Antimony: will China continue to control supply?

"TriStar's Oman plant would normally have the potential to disrupt the antimony market but plant closures in China in recent years may create sufficient space for TriStar's new antimony production," he adds. ... Although mining antimony is cheaper in China because of labour costs and the typically large deposits, the trend in declining ...

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Antimony, a pollutant of emerging concern: A review on industrial

A major part of this antimony is bio available as indicated by the higher total Sb concentrations (108–4029 mg. kg −1) in the sampled plants from the mining area. The bioavailable fraction of antimony in the soil is estimated through citric acid extraction ( Okkenhaug et al., 2011 ).

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Toxic effects of antimony in plants: Reasons and remediation

Antimony (Sb) is a dangerous heavy metal (HM) that poses a serious threat to the health of plants, animals, and humans. Leaching from mining wastes and weathering of sulfide ores are the major ways of introducing Sb into our soils and aquatic environments.

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Bacterial community profile of contaminated soils in a typical antimony

The soils around the world's largest antimony mine have been contaminated by high concentrations of Sb and As, which might influence microbial diversity in the surrounding soils. ... (2014) Effects of antimony and arsenic on antioxidant enzyme activities of two steppic plant species in an old antimony mining area. Biol Trace Elem …

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Antimony toxicity in soils and plants, and mechanisms of its

Antimony (Sb) is a non-essential element for plants, animals, and humans. With increased anthropogenic inputs from mining and industrial activities, ore …

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The uptake and detoxification of antimony by plants: A review

Abstract. Many crops cultivated in mining areas have been found to accumulate high levels of antimony (Sb) in their edible parts, thereby causing potential risks to human health. Understanding the behaviours of Sb in plants is important, particularly the mechanisms involved in its uptake, toxicity, detoxification and accumulation in crops.

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Antimony: A Mineral with a Critical Role in the Green Future

In 2020, there was no domestically mined production of antimony in America—meaning the U.S. relied on other countries, primarily China, for its antimony supply. In the past, China has imposed restrictions on the exports of antimony-based products to the U.S., which reduced availability …

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Hydrogeochemistry characteristic contrasts between low- and …

The antimony (Sb) content of shallow drinkable groundwater at Xikuangshang mine area (in Hunan province, China) has exceeded China's national drinking water quality guidelines, posing a serious threat to the health of residents in the mine area. The difference in hydrogeochemistry characteristics and water-rock interactions between low Sb …

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Availability, Toxicology and Medical Significance of Antimony

The extensive mining and use of antimony have led to its introduction into the biosphere, where it can be hazardous, depending on its bioavailability and absorption. ... In general, antimony bioavailability in plant-dominated environments exhibits notable variability, e.g., [100,132,133,134,135,136,137,138].

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[PDF] Microbial diversity in soils from antimony mining sites

Elevated soil concentrations of antimony (Sb) and co-contaminants are frequently encountered where antimony has been mined on a large scale. For instance, the Xikuangshan antimony mine in central South China has sustained, over many centuries, dispersed and spatially variable input of toxic elements into the soil ecosystem. We …

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Factors influencing the uptake and speciation transformation of

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As Miners Chase Clean-Energy Minerals, Tribes Fear …

Deep in the Salmon River Mountains, an Idaho mining company, Perpetua Resources, is proposing a vast open-pit gold mine that would also produce 115 million pounds of antimony — an element that ...

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Toxic effects of antimony in plants: Reasons and remediation

Abstract. Antimony (Sb) is a dangerous heavy metal (HM) that poses a serious threat to the health of plants, animals, and humans. Leaching from mining …

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Heavy metals uptake and transport by native wild plants: …

The Xikuangshan antimony (Sb) mine is the largest Sb mine in the world, located in Hunan Province, with geographic coordinates of 27.7°N and 111.4°E. The mine has been exploited since 1897, and large-scale Sb mining/smelting activities have resulted in Sb and other heavy metals pollution of the local soils, water, and plants.

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Evaluation of antimony availability in a mining context: Impact for …

Abstract This work aims to establish Sb mobility, its transfer to biota and its effect on soil health in a semi-arid climate. The results show the presence of stibnite (Sb2 …

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Pollution and risk assessment of heavy metals in rivers in the antimony

Xikuangshan (XKS) is the world's largest antimony mining region, and its exploitation for hundreds of years has also resulted in serious soil erosion, fragile ecology, contaminated water, and ...

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Frontiers | Heavy metal pollution characteristics and potential

China is the largest antimony resource globally. The mining and smelting of antimony will inevitably have a significant impact on the surrounding and downstream farmlands of the mining area, Therefore, it is necessary to understand the pollution characteristics of antimony and evaluate its potential environmental risks. In this paper, …

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Ecological effects of soil antimony on the crop plant growth and

High levels of antimony have been frequently detected in some industrial sites. This study evaluated the adverse effects of antimony (Sb) on the surface-casting activity of earthworm and the early growths of some important crop plants. Asian earthworm (Perionyx excavates) and four crop plant species (Chinese cabbage, Brassica …

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Antimony | Geoscience Australia

Antimony is a silverly, lustrous grey metal that exhibits poor heat and electrical conductivity. It is relatively soft, measuring only 3.25 on Moh's scale of mineral hardness. ... Ore is trucked from the Augusta mine portal to the Brunswick plant 2 km away where it is stockpiled, blended, crushed, separated, flotated and filtered. The gravity ...

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